Samurai Blood | A film about Yasuke, the black samurai
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- A short film seeking to raise awareness to one of the most fascinating narratives in Japanese history - the story of 16th century samurai, Yasuke. More content available at mandemhood.com/
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Cast:
Timi Ariyo
Dana Blacklake
Sayaka Takasaki
Kiki Nafig
Alex Barbosa Gardiner
Bahkai Wynter
Crew:
Writer/Director - Elias Williams
Producer - Timon Williams
Director of Photography - Jake R. Smith
Sound Design - Todd Sinden
Editor - Jacob Crow-Mains
Production Design - Ollie Kelly
Art Department Assistant - Lucy Marsden
Second Camera Operator - Jake Lucas
Post Production Assistant - Emma L. Weller
Music - Tom Voysey
Colourist - Cam Sander
BTS Photography - Olumide Osinoiki
Special thanks to @UWE_Film
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Official Selection for Edinburgh Independent Film Awards 2018
Selected for Docubox - EADFF in Nairobi 2019
Official Selection for British Urban Film Festival 2019
Official Selection for That Film Festival - Marbella 2019
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I like the fact that you pointed out the voice issues because I was waiting for a African mans voice
If the hollywood movie about yasuke has just a tenth of the inspiration this short clip has, we're in for a treat.
They are actually, Chadwick Bosemen is gonna play Yasuke
@@Names_buck that's what I meant. If that movie has a faction of this short clip inspiration, it's a movie worth watching
Was Yasuke from Haiti?
@@davidcollegerosemont sources have him from either ethiopia or mozambique, with mozambique being the best guess. I don't think Haiti was developed enough back in the 16th century
@@davidcollegerosemont No! Haiti didnt exist until the 1800's
Never knew about this before. Thank you for sharing.
@Kono Dutch yasuke was a real guy there are records of him.
@Kono Dutch yeah he's very real from what the records say.
So much to unearth and dig up we'll be surprised on how much history is being hidden and suppressed out here and there!!!
@Kono Dutch Why, unhappy there was a BLACK Samuria
Hes mentioned in 2 sources only and they are brief passages. Most of what they "know" is conjecture, wishful thinking and guessing.
In nine short minutes you managed to bring tears to eyes. Beautiful.
I’m already proud to be black. Now I’m learning new things with two of many things I love in my life, my People’s history and Martial arts. This film makes me happy. Thank you to those who made it.
i really liked it! keen to see what more short films come through the Mandem platform!
Wooaahhh.. the way it was written is awesome! You definitely merged history with fiction! Amazing!
Fiction is the operative word. All but 2 facts.
Thank you! What a incredible video!
Good piece of work -- So cool to be touching on this particular his/story
Mom's reaction when she meets the "black boyfriend" is "understandable" (I didn't say "acceptable). Japanese people are very exclusivist. Is not necessarily a "race thing".
By the way, it is not unusual for Africans to have the same reaction. The notion that black people are deprived of "race pride" or even racism is ludicrous.
Good point. 👍
Sadly back to then and even today people forget the person and just look at skin color. So a patent worries about their children safety .
Even if they support their children. 👍
No its not a race thing its a racism thing.
No. It is very unusual for black people to react on that way.
I'm Fraican black , I know what I'm talking about.
But the narrator went on to explain her reaction ..and itvwasnt really based on racism at all
What a Great Story for Yasuke!
Such a badass title: The First Black Samurai
and first foreign samurai too.
It should be The Haitian Samurai. First Foreign Samurai.
@@davidcollegerosemont I know he was the first foreign samurai, but do you have a source for the Haitian thing?
kfir lavi He was an African from Haiti
@@kalmstormllc What Haitians ancestors came from Africa just like most of the Caribbean
Well done... please, I want more from you Guys...
This movie deserves to be in the Oscars Winning.
Why?
@@HolgerDanske Because this is true history.
@@Kingofthepeople But only 2 facts. The rest is BS.
@@HolgerDanske WRONG! Do watch history movies?
Because soon or later there about to fix this movie and make it into action, drama, fighting, and history movie.
@@Kingofthepeople He wasn't a samurai, he fathered no children, there are no descendants of yasuke in Japan.
Samuel l Jackson should have narrated this
Mr Jackson did Afro Samurai and not appropriate for this. Plus, the narrator needs to be a woman. Lucy Lui?
6:14 okay so great great great grandmother that’s maybe 150 year 200 years 300 at the most now the year is 2022-300=1822?!?! You need at minimum 2 more greats…
Dada nimependa ulivyo simulia. I love the way you presented this story
What a beautiful story and what n honor to have such great ancestors.
WOW
This was beautiful. Netflix needs to keep up this vein. Maybe a past lives scenario?
This is so well done 👍 Thank you for doing this.
I want more a few fight sequences love story, heart break and of course passion for Ancient Japanese culture
Anyone feel a little disappointed about that this isn't actually about Yasuke?
It pretends to give a subjective look at the figure but he's only ever an objective piece of the film. And this is reflected in the comments too. We're not here to learn about Yasuke, we're here to indulge in marveling at Yasuke. The first black samurai isn't the hero of this story. He's the servant to us navel-gazing our own reverence of him.
I can't say you're wrong. That is a very intresting take. Too me this is metaphor rather then real. I think the way it's told has the feeling of methical on purpose. I enjoyed it. Purhaps someone will gain an interest from this. I for some reason am fascinated with African culture and the samurai which means to serve. Yuskae was a nobel man.
And he's not even a samurai.
Dude, this clip is so cool!
Great job. Thank you for making this video and I can't wait for a live action movie to tell this story.
I've just bought the book. Hoping for an epic film. I want one on Thomas Alexandre Dumah too.
Well done to everyone involved!
this was diffrent man really nice job you told story with no action fight in it really love that
Wow!!!! Amazing!!!!!
Her perspective at the beginning was dope…her tho 😍
Sorry my friend that won't scrub off!!!!
Thank you for making this, The anger and revenge of the Afro samurai as a child definitely comes to mind, I can imagine this to be true especially Yasuke tragic end, It’s so funny as On sidemen the other day the black man got a dna test and he was 25% Japanese🤣
Very nicely done
I mean one of the beat short films I’ve seen in a long time
That gave me chills 😎
Blacks we The Ones
I see an athlete like serge ibaka embodying this role
As a Japanese, Japanese do not break the clothes that people wear. The samurai does not politely insult such a person from the beginning. There are some other scenes that are not Japanese. More than anything that old Japanese do. impossible. Nobunaga is a respectable person.
We, Japanese people, have hated discriminatory things from long ago. So we fought in World War II. we wanted to end the colonial era. History has hidden much of the past. The Japanese army battled with life for liberation of the people.Almost propaganda. After the war, honest Japanese have been deceived. The problem is that a spoofing person is lobbying.
@@MJ-pd2gc I think thats only the past wich need to be remenber but japanase are not like that anymore
You do remember the Bataan Death March, don’t you? The Japanese are not honorable in victory!
everyone has good and fucked up history that's been hiding deep down, but never truly gone. Waiting to be some day revealed.
So the raping just didn't happen, I'm half japanese because I'm related to the raping of many Japanese soldiers and Australian nurses. Hardest part is my great grandmother was told to keep quiet as she was half Japanese nurse being raped by her own people. Yes japanese people are respectful and me living in both countries taught me that but in WW2 they were no less than the colonizers.
In denial much.
The Japanese are not discriminating, really?
Don't your own people discriminate against your own citizens the barukumin.
Other Asian cultures such as China and Korea. In fact the rape of Nankin was a major example of such.
WW2 WTF history are you reading? Japan was battling for their liberation are you crazy?
They were invading other nations attempting to expand the Empire.
While feigning peaceful intentions to the United States they were planning an unprovoked attack!
Well done 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I’m standing up in my seat r/n
Knowing Hollywood Tom Cruise would be Yasuke.
Riiight 😭🤦🏾♀️
Hell yeah
Micheal B Jordan would fit more imo
Would have preferred this story over Tom cruises last samurai
SOOOO strange!!!
I'm sorry I have to say I can find a little bit discriminative prejudice to Japanese in this video.
For my eyes (I'm Japanese), expression of Japanese seems very strange.
(1) Women's Kimono: Clothes in this video are not Japanese style, this traditional clothes looks more similar with Korean or Chinese style
(2) Prejudice to African people: According "Shincho-ki" or many other literature written in this era, Japanese people were very curious about new thing, ex. foreign people, imported items, and they never discriminated against African people.
A scene of trying to wash him: it surely was described by some books, but they had never torn off his clothes. Yasuke took only his shirt off by himself.
Most of cases, since then till now, Japanese people have no sense of discrimination against African people.
As for me, I can find prejudice to Japanese people everywhere in this video, it's very strange from the perspective of a Japanese person. This video wouldn't be created by Japanese person.
Yasuke is still very popular amang Japanese young people, and I definitely like his true story.
If you would love to know about him, I'm sure "Yasuke: Story of the African Samurai in Japan" "The Warrior Life of Yasuke :The African Samurai" "Was There Really A Black Samurai?" "Japanese and European Accounts of Yasuke: African Samurai (弥助) // 16th cent. Primary Sources" must be correct and realistic!!!
It always find it fascinating what the l reaction for ancient peopled was like meeting each other for the very first time. Especially if the both had different skin color.
Thank you and love
Beautiful
This is a phenomenal film!
Whe times are tough remeber you could be the first black dude in ancient japen😮😮😮
Amazing film
Awesome work. Arigatou.
For 8:51 secs i was transfixed and transformed. Great story telling, great narrating . Awesome.
With all due respect the wardrobe to this
video needs fixing. The hair style and attire of the woman needs to be actually more Japanese than Chinese in appearance. You should also try to invest in finding people who actually speak the Japanese language. In this way the experience between the characters within the film will appear to be more convincing. ありがとうございます😊！
Yo I love this keep going
This was and is great.
Man..this was chadwick boseman next project, Yasuke. It would have been epic and an interesting movie.
Yep
This narrative is historically innacurate !!!! It's low key insulting to the legacy Africans who have such a long rich history in early Japan that is often times conveniently ignored. Yasuke is "not" the first black or only black Samurai ! In fact, Sakanouye No Tamuramaro was a damn Shogun. Interestingly many believe he was a black man who was the first man to be given the title Shogun. Yea, let's make a movie about a random soldier and ignore the existence of Colin Powell.
Great story thank you
movie worthy
this is so Inaccurate. A complete lie. Yasuke was never hunted. Yasuke was highest rank Samurai since 1579 and Oda Nobunagas most trusted retainer. But many years later Oda Nobunaga was attacked by Akechi Mitsuhides army and forced to commit seppuku. Yasuke was there at the time and helped fight the Akechi forces. Immediately after Nobunaga's death, Yasuke went to join Nobunaga's heir Oda Nobutada who was trying to rally the Oda forces at Nijō Castle. Yasuke fought alongside the Nobutada forces but was eventually captured. When Yasuke was presented to Akechi, the warlord allegedly said that the black man was an animal as well as not Japanese and should thus not be killed, but taken to the Christian church in Kyoto, the Nanbanji (南蛮寺). However, there is some doubt regarding the credibility of this fate. There is no further written information about him after this.
I hate it when they get historical movies wrong. They should put a lot more research into something first
Then looking at it objectively, it is a possibility
This was dope
thanks this epic
Beautiful!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Amazing video, and I love the interpretation of his history (Yasuke is probably my favorite historical figure). Just word of caution, the whole "For a samurai to be brave he must have a bit of black blood" thing, that wasn't a real saying and was most probably coined by a Frenchman during the 1800s. I don't recommend doing too much research into this though lest you lose your sanity like I did.
@Kono Dutch the hell you even talking about? This video? The frenchman who coined the phrase? something different?
Yasuke was from Haiti?
@@davidcollegerosemont Source?
Yes. Keep misquoting ang using made-up history. People will take you seriously then.
That was fantastic! Well done and masterfully executed!
Guess who coming to dinner? BOI I TELL YA!!
Japan had its doors closed to all foreigners for 200 hundred years . No trade or communication, so quite rightly suspicious of foreigners.. Japan's history is rich and complex . This story is a microcosm in massive wealth of complex relations with outside influences.. the film silence paints wonderfully , but the film its self can be interrupted very differently if you are a Christian it's a story about brave Portuguese Jesuits who strive through the odds to pass on the truth.. when really it was arrogance and ignorance of those Jesuits that their word was true and why wouldn't this culture want to convert.. completely ignoring the beliefs and complex construct of Japanese culture and how socially speaking Japan was advanced in a way foreigners couldn't comprehend or bother to even grasp..
Can I repost this ???? I’ll credit you
I love this.
Actually a RED belt in Japanese Martial Arts is the highest honor.
But pretty close.
Actually that's only for some schools when awarded 9th or 10th dan.
But pretty close
I dont care who narrarates black, white, whatev. But the constant stopping just to ask questions is messing up the overall tone of the story
This film is kinda dumb. About some girl and her boyfriend. And it’s annoying how she keeps interrupting.
Why mar Yasuke's story with a fabricated doomed love story that focuses on racism? What's wrong with black men who, you know, did great for themselves, like Yasuke?
Gale Mercado literally he was a slave so something racially motivated has to come up once in this video we know he was a great man but the fact that he was a slave and was now a samurai you can’t get rid of his past as a slave I agree that love should have not been brought into this story but racism plays a major role in this story
come on stop acting like black people were considered slaves until like 70 years ago. you are disrespecting those who died by trying to ignore their history wether it was a good one or a dark one (no pun intended)
_Nasuke. x factually, we know very little about Yasuke, including how he was treated day to day by the Japanese. The Japanese thought Europeans were barbaric and beneath them yet we don’t have evidence of lynch mobs (outside of Tokugawa’s order to rid the island of Nabans), and I definitely don’t recall any stories about lynch mobs against Yasuke. That’s what I’m trying to get at. I don’t think I’m being disrespectful at all by trying to be true to Yasuke’s story instead of lumping him with every other African in history Lillie he can’t have an identity outside of that
I recommend the boook written by thomas lockley
I’ll play the samurai
My question is how come nobody heard of him up until little over a year ago?
Why are we only learning about the Tulsa Black Wall Street Riots now?
You expect them to teach you everything. Read n investigate for yourself. Watch what you uncover
The Japanese knew about him. That’s why Afro Samurai is based on him.
You better believe it!!
Chinese don't try to be Swiss
Haitians don't try to be Hindu or Indian
Can you please give the names of Yasukes Desendants.
Nobody can for there are no records of them (if there are any.)
I’ve been asking this question forever. Yasuke was given several concubines by Nobunaga.
Where 👏 are 👏 hood 👏 babies 👏?!?!!
Is this a true story? Her being a descendant of Yasuke???
wayne47able no
No, it's not. Gotta Hollywood it up and add stuff.
If you saw my descendants you would doubt their ethnicity. I believe it highly possible.
Black=ROYALTY Black=KINGS/QUEENS Black=POWER Black=TheOriginalMan Black=GodsPeople
There are only 2 facts un this story. Yasuke was black and he knew Nobunaga. Everything else is fantasy, wishful thinking and conjecture.
This is a big lie. Japanese woman didn’t look like this Chinese looking woman in that era. this woman wearing Chinese dress in this film. Please, know that first Japanese people were black and these blacks were many in Japan before world war 2. also, Yasuke was not the first black samurai of Japan.
Please stop embarrassing us by claiming other people's cultures, you decrepit us when we try to claim things the true history that was actually stripped from us.,
@@MONKEYSCHANNEL327 What do you mean by us? I'm from Japan. why can't i speak the truth?
WeirdInternetz Please answer TesseraV ‘s question. Unless you are from Japan and you have evidence of being an expert on Japanese history you need to elaborate on a few details as to why you disagree with our statements about this film.
You are embarrassing black people and africans everywhere by claiming Egyptian and Asian culture.
Great Stories 👍
Anyone here after Netflix announced an anime?
Mandem! Lol love our london lingo
Could that narrator be any more of a smug millennial annoyance? If I hired a voice over artist who kept telling me how I should be directing my short film, I'd fire her and hire someone else. And I get that it was a scripted part of the short film, but, still, what an obnoxious way to keep pulling the viewer out of your story.
That being said, this video was a horrible way to draw attention to this legend. Most of the video is VERY inaccurate, even considering how little we know of the story. For example: racism against blacks wasn't really a thing in Japan at that time. The treatment Yasuke received from the people was merely curiosity, astonishment, and, eventually, honor. Why this video had to make the racism ties so heavily is disturbing. But I wouldn't expect better from our current culture, and I suspect the upcoming movie to butcher the story even worse.
Shut up. Just shut the fuck up
@@dannydevito5859 Why you Westerners always do this to our history try to mix it with your politics and fuck us over. You are always offended on our behalf yet do you ever ask how we feel.
@@cyril8084 hi how are you?
@@bruhphoenix3084 Hi
@@cyril8084 crazy times am I right
Only thing that got me mad was that the person who was speaking was like “wHaT DoEs ThIs HaVe tO dO WiTh ThE cOuPlE?”
Lol..I was looking for this comment, after she asked.
The heart of darkness?
Yes. I other words, “the light of darkness”.
She is wearing Chinese clothing not kimono.
August Hayek You are right! this is not a Japanese Kimino. It’s strange. Is this a propaganda to Japanese history?
westerners should not be writing history about the eastern history. especially if they know very little about it.
“What do they mean by that?” Moorish Blood.
Dark skin/Swarthy People. So called black people.
Did this narrator really experience this? Or it's just story she told
I dont know what this is about . but this never happen , Yasuke was given a wife by the samurai and a place within the kingdom of the samurai. Ugunaga was fascinated with his skin yes they tried to scrub the black off. this is to long but check the facts of the history . he was a bodyguard for the Christians , were they paid for his services in India.
There is no records of Yasuke being given a wife.
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"I shouldn't be reading this:
*continues reading*
An African Man
A Respectful Perspective
More could have been expressed of this unique individual,
who has remarkably achieved so much, from a educated humble servant to a military position of great prominence.
A few questions needed to be answered:
1. Where did he acquire such refined quality attributes from?
2. Did he inherit the moral values from his wise parents??
3. This person is intelligently meek!
Very keen to listen and learn; Explain how!!
4. Before arrival a proven skilled swordsman,
and verbal tongue of wisdom; From where???
"To conclude: Look! Beyond the appearance skin deep within,
of the African man Yasuke.
Also give a supportive compliment to his better intellect."
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This is some dope shit
but after the battle yasuke was back to slavery
They don't tell you that part. Gotta make it look like everything is fair and good :D.
Ignorance at best
@@philosophersbench6595 Explain
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Yasuke wasn't a Samurai and there is no historical record that claims he was. He was employed by a Samurai lord because he was black and no one else in Japan was.
Well, there is a mention of a Retainer. Which, means a high ranking member of the daimyo. It could be a samurai or landlord. They won't give a land to a foreign. So, most possibly is a samurai.
this shit made me wanna pick up a damn sword
If it only was real